US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining sections for map update" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,724, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining sections for map update" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to select, for each of pairs of two locations selected from among a plurality of locations at which vehicles can enter or exit a predetermined region, a series of road sections connecting the two locations from among a plurality of road sections as a route between the two locations, calculate, for each of the pairs, a score ind...